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Luis Reyes

With more than 14 years covering the automotive industry, Luis Reyes is a seasoned voice in the field. A law graduate, he channels his curiosity and expertise into the detailed analysis of national and international regulations that shape the automotive world. At Autonocion.com, Luis combines his strong legal background with a deep passion for vehicles — especially those that have left a mark on automotive history. His experience writing for multiple brands across the industry has established him as a trusted authority. Luis is committed to sharing his expertise and enthusiasm with enthusiasts and industry professionals alike, with a firm belief in the continuous evolution and innovation driving the auto industry forward.
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Spillway gates at Albeni Falls Dam on the Pend Oreille River in Oldtown, Idaho

A 42-megawatt Idaho dam can only swing nine of its 10 spillway gates fully open or fully shut since engineers found delaminated steel in the 70-year-old gates, and the 1,150-foot-deep lake behind it gets the first of 11 new gates next summer

10.29.2026
Holtec's fuel transfer canister holding tilted assembly DD41 being moved at the Palisades plant in Michigan

A 12-foot bundle of 216 fuel rods that leaned 30 degrees for seven weeks inside the first American reactor being brought back from retirement was lifted out by a tool built in two weeks and shut inside a 49,000-pound canister, and fuel loading can finally start again

10.29.2026
Young Calypso blueberry bushes growing beside a row of solar panels at Oregon State University's agrivoltaics research farm

A 5-acre solar farm in Oregon can rotate its solar panels nearly vertical so farm equipment can drive through, and researchers planted one row of blueberries inside it and one outside, spaced so a harvester that straddles the whole bush still fits between the solar panels

10.29.2026
Llyn Peris and the slate quarries of Elidir Fawr above the Dinorwig pumped storage power station in North Wales

Six pump-turbines with rotors weighing up to 507 tons can put 1,320 megawatts on the grid in 12 seconds from inside a Welsh mountain, and the first two are coming out after four decades while the other four keep spinning in the same 590-foot cavern

10.29.2026
Duke Energy's Robinson Nuclear Plant, a 759-megawatt Westinghouse pressurized water reactor on Lake Robinson near Hartsville, South Carolina

A 759-megawatt reactor in South Carolina failed an ultrasound check on the pipe elbow between its pressurizer and one of its three safety valves with all 157 fuel assemblies out of the core, and it won’t restart until the steel is fixed, six months after getting cleared to run to 80

10.29.2026
Unit 6 turbine generator at NYPA's Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant in Lewiston, New York

A 2,600-megawatt power plant 4.5 miles below Niagara Falls took its first turbine apart down to the shafts and put it back together in 33 months, one of 13, and is bolting a 680-ton crane together on the plant floor to lift the other 12 out one at a time

10.28.2026
Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia, where Unit 4 sent its first electricity to the grid

A 471-megawatt reactor in Slovakia sent its first electricity to the grid at 8:41 at night, running at a fifth of its power on one of its two turbines, two days after an odd voltage reading on its generator made its operator rerun the tests and call off the press conference

10.28.2026
Middle Bridge over Blue Mesa Reservoir with exposed shoreline, Curecanti National Recreation Area, Colorado

A 390-foot earthen dam in Colorado has drawn its lake down to 17 percent, 19 feet above the line where its two turbines stop making power, after the driest snowmelt on record, and the river below has been cut to about 210 cubic feet a second to keep them turning

10.28.2026
Brick chimney standing in Lake Peigneur near Jefferson Island, Louisiana

A 1,000-acre Louisiana lake 4 to 15 feet deep drained into the salt mine under it in three hours, after an oil derrick on its surface jammed its bit more than 1,200 feet down and tipped over, and the whirlpool pulled two drilling rigs, a tugboat and a string of barges down with it

10.28.2026
Rail-mounted crane on the crest of the Limberg dam in Kaprun, Austria, during the 28.5-foot raise

A 394-foot concrete dam in the Austrian Alps has 25 new blocks on its crest, poured mostly at night with 1,300 tons of crushed ice mixed in to keep them from cracking, and the wall will stand 28 feet taller so its lake holds 16 percent more water

10.28.2026
alpine a310 vision concept

Holy… Who Hurt Alpine!? The A310 Vision is the EV Of the Future, But the US is Stuck in the Past

10.27.2026
Leaburg powerhouse McKenzie River EWEB

A 15.9-megawatt Oregon powerhouse that has not made a watt in eight years is having the blades cut off its second turbine so the canal above it can dump storm runoff through the empty 12-foot pit, after gutting the first one opened up 1,000 cubic feet a second

10.27.2026
The 36-foot cutterhead of Snowy 2.0’s Lady Eileen Hudson tunnel boring machine underground in the Snowy Mountains

A 2,535-ton boring machine is being cut to pieces half a mile under the Australian mountains after 5.3 miles of tunnel, with a 417-ton cutting wheel nobody needs anymore, while her sister is only halfway through a 9.3-mile drive

10.27.2026
Deployable Energy’s Unity reactor core strapped in the bed of a Ford F-150 on the road to Idaho

A 20-foot nuclear reactor that last rode to Idaho empty in the bed of a pickup truck will go back loaded with uranium at a Houston factory and slide into a 100-foot dome for six months at full power, the first reactor to travel fueled in 60 years

10.27.2026
GICON Höhenwindturm Schipkau

An 827-ton wind turbine was pushed up the inside of a lattice tower by hydraulic jacks at 30 feet an hour until its hub sat 984 feet off the ground, the tallest on Earth, after a week of wind kept shutting the climb down, and it’s set to go on the grid in just days

10.27.2026
One of BlueNewables’ two 220-ton floating solar catamarans moored outside the Port of Valencia’s southern breakwater

Two 220-ton steel catamarans carrying 600 solar panels each were towed around Spain from a shipyard in Vigo and now sit on the open sea outside the Port of Valencia’s breakwater, a one-megawatt plant that keeps its panels above the waves on two hulls

10.27.2026
Cooling tower and reactor buildings of Engie's Tihange nuclear plant on the Meuse at Huy, Belgium

A 1,000-megawatt Belgian reactor came back on the grid at 5:30 in the afternoon after seven months and 7,000 tasks, with 2,000 workers pressure-testing its containment for the first time since it started up, on a plant the law said would be scrap by now

10.27.2026
Equinox Ocean Turbines Mobula 5

A 164-foot concrete rotor turning in the tide makes no electricity at all. A federal lab opened its hub and found a bearing and nothing else, because the only two generators on it are bolted to the blade tips, and its Dutch builder now wants one in the Gulf Stream off Florida

10.27.2026
The earthen flood-control dam at Zorinsky Lake in Omaha, Nebraska, with Army Corps inspectors on the crest

Four flood-control dams around Omaha pushed their lakes to the highest levels ever recorded in one two-day storm after up to 8 inches of rain, one of them rising nearly 9 feet above normal with 9 feet of storage still to spare, and the Army Corps found no damage

10.27.2026
Hot Fuel Examination Facility INL

A 70-foot room in Idaho full of argon, behind four feet of concrete, is where America cuts open used fuel rods, the cuts get marked with a Sharpie wrapped in tape, a plumber’s pipe cutter does the rough work, and a 181-ton cask of used fuel is now coming to it by rail

10.27.2026
The Ahaus interim storage facility in North Rhine-Westphalia, run by the federal storage company BGZ, where the CASTOR casks from Jülich are being taken

A 60,000-pound steel cask holding up to 1,900 graphite fuel balls from a German reactor shut down 38 years ago rolled out at 10:40 at night under a police helicopter and reached a storage hall 105 miles away at 1:40 a.m., with 126 more casks still to go

10.26.2026
Aerial view of the Kōwhai Park solar farm panel rows at Christchurch Airport, New Zealand

300,000 solar panels now cover 568 acres behind the runways of New Zealand’s second-busiest airport, and the 66,000-volt cable that carries their power out was buried one night at a time, each trench dug, piped and filled in before the first jet of the morning

10.26.2026
A yellow SeaTrac SP-48 solar drone boat floating offshore in the Gulf of Maine

A 16-foot solar drone boat photographing an algae bloom in the Gulf of Maine went silent 30 miles offshore while it sat recharging, drifted for 11 days with a reward out to lobstermen, and then called home from 90 miles off Massachusetts, a state away

10.26.2026
Troxler Model 3440 nuclear moisture density gauge, the model stolen in Indiana and recovered from an eBay listing

A 31-pound nuclear density gauge loaded with cesium and americium, stolen from an Indiana jobsite by thieves who cut the locks on 10 storage containers, turned up on eBay four years later, and two states and the FBI had it back with its owner in six days

10.26.2026
Collapsed wind turbine folded in half at Ameren's High Prairie wind farm in Adair County, Missouri, with intact turbines behind it

A 499-foot wind turbine folded in half into a Missouri pasture after two loud noises at 4 in the morning, the fifth tower to go down at the state’s biggest wind farm, and photos taken that afternoon show three of its neighbors spinning beside the stump

10.26.2026
Jackson Lake Dam

A 65-foot dam at the foot of the Tetons ran 5,000 cubic feet a second down the Snake for Idaho farms all summer, drained a lake built for 847,000 acre-feet down to 63,942, its lowest in 38 years, and left biologists shocking stranded fish out of the drying pools

10.25.2026
The Okertalsperre reservoir in Germany's Harz mountains drawn down to a record low in October 2026, with its bare rock banks exposed

A 246-foot arch dam in Germany’s Harz mountains is down to 16 percent, the lowest since it was built, the walls of the village it drowned in the 1950s are back above the mud, and its operator has permission to cut the river below to 35 cubic feet a second

10.25.2026
Combine harvesting oats between rows of tracking solar panels at a Wattmanufactur agrivoltaic park in northern Germany

24,264 solar panels on trackers over an organic oat field near Germany’s Danish border kept the soil under them so wet that sowing ran four weeks behind the field’s open ends, and a tractor driver looking back over his shoulder drove into a row of modules and broke several

10.25.2026
The former Crean Hill nickel-copper mine site west of Sudbury, Ontario, with its surface buildings gone, which Magna Mining plans to reopen with a new ramp and its restored No. 2 shaft

A flooded nickel and copper mine outside Sudbury sat under water for 25 years with every building on top torn down, and a small Ontario company just approved digging a new ramp into it, pumping it dry and putting the old shaft back to work to haul out 2,400 tons of rock a day for 12 years

10.25.2026
Gold Hydrogen's Ramsay 1 helium well site near Port Vincent on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula, with the drilling rig and flow-test equipment

A 7-inch well nearly 3,000 feet deep on an Australian farming peninsula pumped 14,000 barrels of water a day, seven times its two narrower sister wells, and the helium in that water was purified and bottled beside the rig, the first helium bottled in Australia in three years

10.25.2026
The Cattenom nuclear power plant in Moselle, France, its cooling towers reflected in the lake at sunset

A transformer feeding a 1,300-megawatt French reactor on the Luxembourg border caught fire as crews switched it back on at the end of a refueling outage, a water spray put it out before the fire trucks arrived, and this weekend only one of the plant’s four reactors is on the grid

10.25.2026
The spillway and three radial gates of Vallecito Dam, the 162-foot earthfill dam on the Pine River northeast of Durango, Colorado

A 162-foot earth dam in southwest Colorado held 25,812 acre-feet on Sept. 15 and 93,607 on Oct. 22, after the leftovers of three Pacific hurricanes poured off the San Juans and the third one put the homes above its lake on pre-evacuation notice

10.25.2026
Cameco’s jet boring machine in a tunnel under the Cigar Lake uranium mine in Saskatchewan

The richest uranium ore on Earth sits 1,345 feet under Saskatchewan frozen to 13 below zero for up to four years, then a machine carves 20-foot cylinders out of it from underneath with a water jet and plugs each hole with concrete, 572 so far

10.24.2026
The six concrete penstocks running down the hillside to the Benmore hydroelectric power station in New Zealand

Six 3,300-ton concrete pipes run water down a 37-degree hillside to New Zealand’s second-biggest hydro plant, and a trolley winched up the slope is jacking each one off its rubber bearings one pad at a time, 636 in all, water still running

10.24.2026
Solar carport canopies over the Six Flags Magic Mountain parking lot in Valencia, California

22,908 solar panels now shade 4,315 parking spaces at a California theme park, sized to cover a year of power for the park and the water park next door, and when the utility cuts the valley’s lines for wildfire risk the array shuts off too

10.24.2026
Radiant Kaleidos microreactor container on a trailer bound for Idaho National Laboratory

The Navy is putting a 70-ton reactor that ships in a 35-foot container and runs five years on one load of fuel on an Indiana weapons base, its first power reactor on land since Antarctica, and the only one built is still inside an Idaho test dome

10.24.2026
Gösgen nuclear power plant and its cooling tower in Däniken, Switzerland

A 1,010-megawatt Swiss reactor dropped its control rods on its own at 6:40 in the morning when the voltage holding them up sagged during a test, and was back on the grid by 5:50 that evening, seven months after a 10-month shutdown

10.24.2026
Line 5 reroute horizontal directional drill Marengo River

A 30-inch oil pipeline pulled through a hole bored under a Wisconsin river had groundwater pushing up to the surface at 85 to 100 gallons a minute the day it went in, and two of the drill rigs working the same 41-mile detour have since burned before dawn, 25 days apart

10.23.2026
Buddug TBM National Grid Eryri Dwyryd

A 481-ton boring machine spent 17 months cutting 2 miles under a Welsh estuary and came up in a 187-foot shaft with 2,774 concrete rings bolted in behind it, so 10 steel towers carrying 400,000 volts across a national park can come down and the view go back to the way it was

10.23.2026
Project Nexus solar canal California Turlock

131 feet of solar panels shipped already wired from Australia unfold like a paper fan across a 21-foot California irrigation canal and fold back on a rail whenever the district drags an anchor chain down the channel to rip out the weeds, then roll out over the water again

10.23.2026
Fort Calhoun Station’s containment building coming down during decommissioning on the Missouri River north of Omaha

A 484-megawatt reactor on the Missouri River ran 43 years and took 10 more to tear down, its 500,000-pound steel vessel was cut into 43 pieces with a torch and shipped out by rail, and a six-bay garage is one of six buildings still standing where the plant used to be

10.23.2026
The nacelle of a 459-foot wind turbine burning at night on the North Sea dike at Simonsberg, Nordfriesland

A 459-foot wind turbine standing on a dike on the German North Sea coast caught fire 276 feet up at half past ten at night, and 60 firefighters drove out to it and stood on the ground watching it burn, because the tallest ladder they own reaches a little past 100 feet

10.23.2026
Oahe Dam, the 245-foot earthen embankment on the Missouri River above Pierre, South Dakota, with its powerhouse and spillway

A 245-foot earthen dam holding the fourth-largest reservoir in the US was built to pass 415,000 cubic feet of water a second, a new study says a rare flood would push 30 percent more through it, and the Army Corps moved it to the top of its risk list with the lake 25 feet low

10.23.2026
Endurance Energy’s 3-ton Adélie titanium power unit on the seafloor at Axial Seamount, 5,000 feet down off Oregon

A 3-ton power plant sat 5,000 feet down on an active underwater volcano 300 miles off Oregon, spun its turbine to 26,000 rpm on 538-degree vent water and made more power than it used for 8.7 seconds before its own battery protection shut it off, run from a room in Seattle

10.22.2026
Waterford 3, Entergy’s 1,152-megawatt pressurized water reactor on the Mississippi River in Killona, Louisiana

A 1,152-megawatt reactor on the Mississippi shut itself down at 10:45 at night, hours before operators planned to shut it down by hand for refueling, when a turbine test tripped it, one electrical bus failed to switch over and an emergency diesel started on its own

10.22.2026
Mormon Flat Dam on the Salt River with Canyon Lake drawn down 54 feet and its two Stoney spill gates exposed

A 224-foot concrete dam in Arizona is standing in a lake pulled down 54 feet so two 400,000-pound steel gates that normally rise four feet a year can be lifted all the way open, three hours apiece, and sandblasted before the lake refills, a job the dam gets once every 20 years

10.22.2026
A self-propelled blade transporter carrying a 272-foot wind turbine blade tilted skyward on a forest track near Plettenberg, Germany

A 272-foot wind turbine blade riding tilted toward the sky went over with its 149-ton transporter in a bend of a gravel forest track after midnight in the German hills, and 30 specialists from four countries took three days to get the vehicle back on its wheels

10.22.2026
The 2,500-ton Line 9 tunnel boring machine with its 39-foot cutting wheel before launch under Barcelona

A 2,500-ton boring machine grinding 131 feet under Barcelona pulled so much ground into itself that a hole opened in a pizzeria bathroom and 300 people left eight buildings, and it still sits under them with 66 feet to crawl before the last 18 families get home

10.22.2026
Flaming Gorge Dam, the 502-foot thin-arch concrete dam on the Green River on the Utah-Wyoming line

A 502-foot concrete dam on the Green River is letting up to a million acre-feet out of its reservoir to keep Lake Powell above the line where its eight turbines shut down, the lake behind it has dropped 34 feet, and the water keeps flowing for six more months

10.22.2026
TaunaBad Oberursel Photovoltaik

Germany stood 64 solar panels upright along the fence of a public pool, facing the parking lot instead of the sky, because the back of each panel drinks the light bouncing off the cars, and they give up the middle of the day to take the early morning and late afternoon while the 90-year-old pool they feed heads for a teardown vote

10.22.2026
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